Seeing how I have 3 medium sized Disucs already, do you think it would cause problems if I introduced several more small discus in with them? I can't find anything their size thats under 120$, and I don't really want to spend that much on one....
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Seeing how I have 3 medium sized Disucs already, do you think it would cause problems if I introduced several more small discus in with them? I can't find anything their size thats under 120$, and I don't really want to spend that much on one....
apparantly the larger Discus excrete a hormone into the water that does not go to well with the smaller Discus, or so I have been told...
Does anybody know anymore about this???
I hear that only the young discus do this, as in the fry, hence the need for plenty of water changes in discus fry tanks. I doubt the larger discus would excrete enough hormones to actually slow down the rate of growth of other discus..... Even so regular water changes should remedy this porblem.
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Alistair
Thanks Alistair... I was about to do some searching on it, but you have pretty much summed up what I was pointing out...
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I do daily water changes, or if not daily, every 2nd, or 3rd day at the most, so I wouldn't think it would be a problem. The tank is 108gal in capacity.